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The pleasant rays of the semi-tropical sun so warmed and subsequently melted the varied dispositions of the company on board the _Summer Shelter_ that in spite of their very different natures they became fused, as it were, into a happy party of friends.
Willy Croup actually felt as if she were a young woman in a large party of gentlemen with no rivals. She was not young, but many of her youthful qualities still remained with her, and under the influence of her surroundings they all budded out and blossomed bravely. At the end of a day of fine weather there was not a clergyman on board who did not wish that Miss Croup belonged to his congregation.